Thought by many to be rare or unprecedented events, avalanches do occur in Newfoundland and Labrador, often with devastating results. This book details how avalanches have affected the people of the province in the last 250 years …

For centuries before the arrival in Australia of Captain Cook and the so-called First Fleet in 1788, intrepid seafaring explorers had been searching, with varied results, for the fabled “Great Southland.” In this enthralling history of early discovery, Graham Seal offers breathtaking tales of shipwrecks, perilous landings, and Aboriginal encounters with the more than three hundred Europeans who washed up on these distant shores long before the land was claimed by Cook for England.